Franco Wong is a Professor of Accounting at the Merage School of Business. Before joining Merage, he was on the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, INSEAD, and the University of Toronto. At Toronto, he held several leadership roles, including Accounting Area Coordinator, Director of Faculty Recruiting, and CPA Ontario Professor of Financial Accounting. He served as the President of the Chinese Accounting Professors’ Association of North America in the 2013-14 academic year.
His research focuses on the production and dissemination of accounting information and the use of accounting information for valuation and contracting purposes. He has written articles on the textual analysis of corporate documents, the capital market implications of alternative data, the real effects of financial and managerial reporting quality, the voluntary disclosures of blockchain technology in initial coin offerings, the role of equity analysts in the pricing of financial statement note information, the impact of securities regulations on equity analysts and cross-listed companies, the incorporation of employee stock option (ESO) dilution into equity valuation, the effect of ESO accounting on share repurchases and corporate investment, the pricing of Internet stocks, and the disclosures about derivatives financial instruments.
Professor Wong has given over 100 presentations at numerous business schools and conferences worldwide. He co-organized eight academic conferences in Canada, China, and France. He also helped organize three conferences on emerging technologies for accounting and finance professionals. He holds the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) Credential from the IFRS Foundation.